I suspect a sizeable 7 to 8 plus magnitude Honshu quake could topple Nukushima unit 4 and initiate public awareness of the impending, worldwide, nuclear contamination; whether unit 4 collapses, on the other hand, from a series of smaller quakes, and dies the death of a thousand cuts, such as tonight's 4.3 quake 49 minutes ago, has me equally concerned:

It has been two years and not a bag of cement has been poured on this disaster. Why have they not buried the hot materials in concrete and Earth or created a sarcophagus of the kind used in Chernobyl? As far as I can tell the situation remains worse than in 2011 with more water polluting the Pacific and the stability of the still standing structures weakening with each inspection. When will the inspections stop and the work begin? They have no plan in place, no timetables set, no funding appropriated, no long-term care for the sick, no apparent comprehension of reality.

They cannot even START to fix what is wrong, without admitting to what is REALLY going on.

According to their propoganda, there is NO PROBLEM at FUKU, so no fix is needed. The whole place is cool, dry and no problems left. They are just 'decommissioning', which is fairly dry and boring stuff.

Also, the soil is UNSTABLE and full of HUGE fissures that open and move with constant earthquakes. The soil quite possibly cannot support a huge cement structure such as the one at Chernobyl.

Why Underground Entombment At
Fukushima Daiichi Won't Succeed
“My response was skeptical since Chernobyl's concrete sarcophagus is now cracking apart due to soil settling and internal heat build-up. There is also major differences in soil structure between Chernobyl and Fukushima. Ukraine is a semi-arid steppe with a water table at considerable depth below the reactor. Fukushima No.1 rests on landfill comprising loose rock and sand over the natural seabed and is positioned only a couple of meters above the high tide mark. Water seepage and earthquake-caused liquefaction have seriously disturbed this rather weak soil structure.

“The carbon reactor at Chernobyl caught fire as the uranium rods melted down, creating a molten lava flow. At Fukushima, however, the quake damage and loss of water from inside the reactors caused many fuel rods to shatter. Broken pieces of uranium fell to the bottom of the reactor cores and melted through their shrouds into the containment chambers.

“The chemical evidence of slaked lime (calcium hydrate) in the air indicates the rod fragments then seared past the containment shields and burned through the reactor buildings' concrete footing.The continuous release of iodine-131 for more than 4 months in both air and sea water samples also indicates nonstop nuclear fission. Due to the intense heat underground, any concrete poured below the reactors will probably be unable to harden uniformly.

“Therefore the current strategy being considered by Tepco engineers is to pump polymer resin under the reactors to prevent the inflow of sea water and ground water. Unfortunately a watertight seal is practically impossible to achieve since the rod fragments will melt though this bubble as well.

“A shocking discovery at Fukushima was that zirconium (used as a ‘transparent’ – allowing passage of neutrons – protective cladding around the fuel rods) when superheated can become a catalyst for an esoteric type of nuclear fission. At extreme temperatures, zirconium ignites even the tiniest quantities of airborne nuclear isotopes, releasing "blue lightning". This means that zirconium catalysis could also be occurring underground, triggering mini-fission events. This sort of nuclear reaction is terra incognita, a yet unexplored frontier of physics, the joker in the deck. …”

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